Dr. Lisa Anderson has created and exhibited internationally for over 40 years undertaking exploration and scientific residencies working with landscape/urbanscape/topographies through a prism of stories found in folklore and superstition as memories of place.
Residencies included remote locations in the High Arctic and Antarctic and locations such as Paris, London, Ireland and Iceland. Installations for the St Tropez Antipodes, Boston Lights, Mardi Gras 798 in Beijing and the Toronto, Hong Kong and Amsterdam Art Fairs by London Gallery Bicha while locally at Customs House in Sydney and Wollongong and Ballarat City Galleries. As the Rupert Bunny Fellow 2023 for Port Phillip creating the exhibition Beguiling at the Victorian Pride Centre with images using tales of gods and sprites that help explain nature.
Dr Anderson is the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Abbotsford Convent working with the queer ghosts of memory and the folklore that surrounds them. Anderson’s work is in public and corporate collections internationally.
The video, Searching for Ghosts created here is currently a part of the Fringe for Venice Biennale 2024.
